Quiz: How Much Recess Does Your Child Get Each Day?
Do you think kids should get more recess at school? Want kids to listen more, fidget less? Today Parents featured the Eagle Mountain Elementary School in Ft. Worth, Texas, that Continue Reading →
Supreme Court Agrees to Decide Fry v. Napoleon Comm. School et. al
Update: On February 22, 2017, the United States Supreme Court vacated and remanded the Sixth Circuit’s Decision in Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools, framing new standards and limits to the Continue Reading →
Taking Away Recess as Punishment – Does it Help?
“77 percent of school principals report that they withhold recess as punishment, even as they simultaneously sing the praises of recess as a factor in academic, cognitive, and social development. Continue Reading →
Need a Voice in the IEP Process?
When your child with a disability receives special education services, you need to know: how to develop your child’s IEP in plain language your rights and responsibilities under IDEA the Continue Reading →
State “Hands are Tied” in Compliance with IDEA: Seriously?!
In my experience, lack of enforcement of IDEA is an open invitation for the school district staff to create laws and rules on the fly. The folks at our State Continue Reading →
Negotiating with the School on Transportation Issues
My daughter attends public school. She has autism and a BIP. The transportation department refuses to come down our gravel private lane to pick her up at our driveway. I Continue Reading →
Special Education, School Sports, and IEPs
Providing students with disabilities the opportunity to try out and play on mainstream school sports teams is important. “Participation in extracurricular athletics can be a critical part of a student’s Continue Reading →
ALERT! Wrightslaw: Special Education Legal Developments & Cases 2015
New Publication from Wrightsaw! Wrightslaw: Special Education Legal Developments and Cases 2015 Verdicts in jury trials and multi-million dollar settlements in teacher abuse cases Background and pleadings in Fry v. Continue Reading →
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Our publisher, Harbor House Law Press, Inc., offers a special 40% discount on bulk orders of all Wrightslaw products. This discount is available on orders of 20 or more books Continue Reading →
Operating on Grade Level Means No IEP? NOT!
I have an 8 year-old on the spectrum with fairly severe sensory and anxiety issues. He needs support with executive functioning and coping with anxiety. He now has speech, OT, Continue Reading →
